This is a quite delightful variety of hellebore in which each flower has an attractive ring of frilly petals (which are in fact oversized nectaries) within the usual petals producing an attractive, frilly, doubling effect. The sizeable, upturned flowers come in the usual range of bright colours.
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Given to us by a good friend many years ago, this lovely variant produces several quite tall thin stems holding relatively diminutive, almost black flowers, that do indeed resemble black buttercups. It makes a distinctive and attractive variation from all other hellebores we grow. Some variations may occur from these seeds but all should be lovely.
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(Helleborus argutifolius). Prickly-edged grey-green leaves on stout stems holding clusters of large, pale green, upturned flowers with green nectaries and stamens. A long lived stalwart.
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Family: Ranunculaceae
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Common name: LENTEN ROSE, CHRISTMAS ROSE
These seeds have been hand collected from these ravishing beauties which have heavily-doubled, brightly-speckled white flowers, which open in February, and continue this awesome display until May or June.
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Family: Ranunculaceae
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Common name: Stinking Hellebore
This ever-popular, evergreen Cottage-garden plant has downward facing, pale green flowers (sometimes with purple edging on the petals) extend on reddened stems above the darker green, shiny, palmately divided foliage. It is named thus only because the foliage gives off an unpleasant smell when crushed.
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The overpowering fragrance from the pendulous purple-lipped flowers fills our cottage garden for weeks in earliest spring, and this has been likened to mahonia perfume). This form is the rare, sweetly-perfumed form of Helleborus foetidus (so called because only the attractive, thick, waxy, divided FOLIAGE has a musky smell if bruised!).
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Seed from the most beautiful plants we have ever grown. Large, waxy, extravagantly marked flowers produce gasps of awe from all who see them. These plants are descendants of many of Helen Ballard's famous named forms.
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A selection from some of our best Helleborus orientalis plants which are guaranteed to brighten up your garden with a splash of colour in early spring. All the very best forms have been selected by hand and concentrated in this selection.
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Wide open, nodding, golden-eyed flowers in reds and deepest pinks, and all attractively speckled within, flaunt their beauty in earliest spring. These plants are exceptionally easy to grow, are very long-lived and once established will put on a wonderful trouble-free annual display. After two or three years you will find they also spread by self-seeding!
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These superb, fully double hellebores do indeed bear an amazing resemblance to roses and come in all shades from pure white to red, including greens and yellows, and are often heavily marked and shaded. The long stems are perfect for cutting too. Wonderful, bone-hardy, perennial, trouble-free plants!
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Seed saved from the very best forms of Helleborus orientalis that we grow in our gardens, including pinks, maroons and mottled and patterned heads. This fabulous selection will impress everyone who is fortunate enough to discover these emerging in March, April and May each year!
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The original seeds of this lovely orientalis form came from our friend Rita's best black flowered plant, and the seedlings are all good with flowers ranging to darkest, deepest purple.
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Family: Ranunculaceae
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Common name: Hellebore, Christmas Rose, Lenten Rose
This remarkable and impressive hybrid between H. argutifolius and H. lividus, which seeds quite true, has inherited the robust hardiness of H. argutifolius, but retained the purple seeds pods and green and pink marbled foliage, coloured red beneath, of H. lividus.
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Family: Ranunculaceae
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Common name: Christmas Rose, Lenten Rose
This is the very finest selection of this lovely hybrid between Helleborus lividus and Helleborus corsicus. Trusses consisting of lime-green flowers tinged with pink or purple open in late winter to early spring, producing purple seed pods, with toothed, dark green, metallic foliage all year round.
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Bunches of open, saucer-like flowers, of a startling bright green, massed on strong stems in early spring. Very early flowering, long-lived flowers which are excellent for cutting.
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